Hi,
Vmlinux is the uncompressed kernel,it is compressed and put as kernel as the
Pc cannot boot a uncompressed kernel.Refer to the book linux kernel
Internals in the first chapter .
Thanx,
Hari
----- Original Message -----
From: Upendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] vmlinuz vs vmlinux
> V.Suresh wrote:
> > My /boot dir contains a vmlinux-2.2.16 1.5 MB, and a vmlinuz-2.2.16 612
KB.
> > I know vmlinuz is the kernel for booting. What is vmlinux-xxx then?
> > --
>
> vmlinux is uncompressed version which is useless for booting. It is
installed
> only by the RedHat rpm, to be used for kernel debugging I think.
>
>
> --
> upn
>
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